From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19363 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2010 21:33:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 19353 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Apr 2010 21:33:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from VLSI1.ULTRA.NYU.EDU (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:33:53 +0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA19241; Tue, 27 Apr 10 17:39:00 EDT From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <11004272139.AA19241@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:40:00 -0000 To: ams@gnu.org Subject: Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC) Cc: corbet@lwn.net, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, iant@google.com, lopezibanez@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <20100424121223.B917D9C09@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20100426100848.6f11fb35@bike.lwn.net> <20100426105859.0bf96869@bike.lwn.net> <11004262009.AA10451@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00898.txt.bz2 > If you need something specific, you should contact legal@gnu.org. > They are quite flexible, I do not know where people got the idea that > they are not. You're missing the point. If flexibilty isn't the DEFAULT people won't know about it and will think it doesn't exist and complain. I strongly agree with previous post: this needs to move to a web-based mostly-automatic and and approach much more personalized to a person's individual situation.